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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2025-20103 json

Insufficient resource pool in the core management mechanism for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially ena…

published 2025-05-13 17 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-14566

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient resource pool in the core management mechanism for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Patch / fix

  • intel-microcode Debian 12 3.20250512.1~deb12u1
  • intel-microcode Debian 14, Debian 13 3.20250512.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-20103

  • intel-microcode Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 3.20250512.0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • intel-microcode Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 3.20250512.0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  • intel-microcode Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 3.20250512.0ubuntu0.24.04.1
  • intel-microcode Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 3.20250512.0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1
  • intel-microcode Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 3.20250512.0ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-20103

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ucode-intel Linux Micro 6.0 20250512-1.1
  • ucode-intel Linux Micro 6.1 20250512-slfo.1.1_1.1
  • ucode-intel SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, SLE Micro 5.5 +19 more 20250512-150200.56.1
  • ucode-intel SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 20250512-152.1
  • microcode_ctl SLES 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 1.17-102.83.84.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20410-1SUSE-SU-2025:20424-1SUSE-SU-2025:01651-2SUSE-SU-2025:01651-1SUSE-SU-2025:01650-1SUSE-SU-2025:1567-1

  • ucode-intel openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250512-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15093-1

  • intel-ucode Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +4 more 20250512-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-20103

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-20103 updated cvss 6.5

microcode_ctl: Insufficient resource pool in the core management mechanism

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 microcode_ctl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 microcode_ctl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 microcode_ctl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 microcode_ctl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 microcode_ctl
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
17 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 5.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • n/a Intel(R) Processors

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-410 Insufficient Resource Pool

References

Sources

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